Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-10-27
San FRANCISCO, Cal.
Oct. 1G. 1887.

SAN Francisco, CAL
Oct 1G. 1887.
| EDITOR CLARION when know anything
can't keep il, and especially when ! have
friends that may be imposed on,why then I'm
bound to say something. Made up my mind
to take Il trip for the winter, and remember
ing the three little orphan glasses of jelly on
the top shelf in the pantry-all that escaped
last winter, thought best to traycl with the
sun. Now YOU find me in the City of the
Golden Gate, and the land of fruits and flow
CrS.
With your kind consideration. will Ell
our friends of the CLARION, what | saw by
the way Through necessity OF both time
and space must ahbrcviatc my sketch for to
|, tell YOU all that is OF interest during u trip
}from Mimi. to Gal. would run this letter
through 10 or T. issues, and myself out of
the country, if you have any patrons who
would like to take The CLARION during their
natural life.
On September 81 about 100 Of us from the
twin cities bought our last stick Of gum for
one Writer in Mimi and bounded u Manto-
ha Excursion train for Victoria 3. c.
We were each Sevcrallv loaded with alleged
literature, covering period of time, from the
battle Troy to the invention otNliE-by an
ovcr-maginativc Englshman. We were al
50 fortified against time with round-trip
tickets, GOOD for sixty days, all for twenty
five dollars
In "a hours we reach Winnipeg, once a
marvellous busy towl of 10000 but now
about % 600 and rather dull. Our stay here
was too short to take III the city, so as to be
able to say good things Of it, Leaving Win
nipcg, we strike out at once upon broad
plain, green and level rs u billiard table.
| TAis is not yet the prairie but great
widening of the valleys of the Red and AS
sinibomr rivers, which unite at Winnipeg,
As we proceed westward we imperceptbly
reach higher ground, and the country is
chrckcrcl with gran-teds and dotted far
into the distance with farmhouscs and grain
lstaclls One hundred and thirty miles from
| Winnipeg we cross the ASslnlboine and reach
Brandon, the largest town in the Canadian
| Northwest, a city in fact, though but five
years old, With handsome buildings and well
| made streets. Leaving Brandon we have
fairly reached the first of the great stcppes,
that rise one after the other at long inter yala
to the Rocky Mountains.
Now we arc ON the real prairie, not the
monotonous, unintercstng plain ones magi-
nation may picture but Il great bi!lowy ocean
OF grass and flowers, now swelling into low
hills, again dropping into broad basins with
! hyn valley and irregular lines Of cc,markihg
the water courses. The horizon only limits
! the view, and rs far rs the eye can reach is
a continual sea Of shore, sweet grass studded
with many flowers all brilliant and noading
in the mild breeze that floats from the dis
tant foothills. We pass station after sta
ton nearly all alike, except rs TO the size
Of the village surrounding them some
| vi W lllCll ult VI lOISlNtl illIIjoi tulitS.
The buildings are uniform. a nice
station-house, high, round tank, and the
never failing elevator, always telling the
same story. Every minute or two we see
ilocks of chickens rising from the g:asS
scared up by the pass ing tram. Ducks.
geese, and long-neckrd cranes are IN and
near every pond, The sportsmcn have near
! ~ all dropped off at the different stations
/ Those who remain are after larger game far
tncr wcst-antelope or caribou.
Three hundred miles from Winnipeg we
pass through the famous Bell farm cmbrac-
| ing one hundred square miles OF land. Think
of IL farm when the burrows are four miles
long, and the country where such thing is
possible. There are cottages and ample
barns for miles around. The buildings make
up small village near the track. Around
them is /, church, q mill and hotel. .,
course the clevatoos the big g % a 6 again
Soon we reach Regina the capitol Of one of
the smaller provinces. This town has be-
come notorious in the last few years as be-
ing the one in which Louis Refill, the famous
! leader ofthc late indian rebellion in Manito-
ba, was incarcerated, tried, condemn ed.
and finally executed.
The buildings here have more ola frontier
look than those ofthe villages left behind
bat for al it is very busy place and gives
promise ola great future.
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